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A flock of old battery hens have been retired to a sanctuary farm on the mountains inland from Queensland's Gold Coast. But their abused bodies are no longer producing enough feathers to keep them warm in winter. A group of volunteers have started knitting and sewing coats and jackets to protect the ...

Australia invented the ute, the Hills Hoist, wifi, the black box flight recorder, the bionic ear, spray on skin, and penicillin. If we go right back, theres the boomerang and indigenous firestick farming. But what future scientific and breakthroughs and innovations does Australia have up its ...

In this episode Dr Benjamin Moffitt examines the role social media has played in the rise of populist politics. Also, what responsibility should technology companies have in preventing the misuse of social media by political extremists. Dr Moffitt is a political scientist at the Australian ...

Four of our seven standard units have been re-defined. Its the biggest change to the international system of standard units since its inception over a century ago. But why would you need to change something thats supposed to be standard? The Evolution of the Metric System: From Precious Lumps of ...

Four of our seven standard units have been re-defined. Its the biggest change since the System of standard units was created over a century ago. But why would you need to change something thats supposed to be standard? And we also get a glimpse of the world as cartoonist Michael Leunig sees it. ...